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Stab   /stæb/   Listen
noun
Stab  n.  
1.
The thrust of a pointed weapon.
2.
A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab of an assassin.
3.
Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.


verb
Stab  v. t.  (past & past part. stabbed; pres. part. stabbing)  
1.
To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
2.
Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.


Stab  v. i.  
1.
To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon. "None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in closer war."
2.
To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon. "She speaks poniards, and every word stabs."
To stab at, to offer or threaten to stab; to thrust a pointed weapon at.





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"Stab" Quotes from Famous Books



... see Mr. Haward again," answered Audrey. She held her head up, but she felt the stab. It had not occurred to her that hers was the power to vex and ruin; ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... now hither and now thither, weeping. Moreover, there being not a breath of wind, the flies and gads flocked thither in swarms and settling upon her cracked flesh, stung her so cruelly that each prick seemed to her a pike-stab; wherefore she stinted not to fling her hands about, still cursing herself, her life, her lover and ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... a blessing, my little maid! I will heal the stab of the Red-Coat's blade, And freshen the gold of the tarnished frame, And gild with a rhyme your household name; So you shall smile on us brave and bright As first you greeted the morning's light, And live ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... had gone quite through the young man's shoulder. There was a deep cut on his head, and there were half a dozen other stab wounds on his body. George had evidently worked with great rapidity ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... wife. "There's something here, for it ran into my finger; we must try to get it out. She then put her hand in again, but very cautiously, and Little Jacket gave it another stab, which made her cry out more loudly than before. Then Huggermugger put his hand in, and again he roared out as he felt the ...
— The Last of the Huggermuggers • Christopher Pierce Cranch


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